MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suka mean?
Suka continues Sanskrit śuka, the parrot, in Odia naming. The bird is also a familiar image in Indian tales because of its ability to repeat human speech. Shuka, the sage who narrates the Bhagavata Purana, shares this parrot name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुका
Conventional spelling
Odia
ସୁକା
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूका
Letter-by-letter: sūkā
1,668 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suka in Indian usage
5,444 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 4,031 records (74%).
- Recorded as male: 1,413 records (26%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 521 |
| 1940s | 783 |
| 1950s | 969 |
| 1960s | 1,025 |
| 1970s | 964 |
| 1980s | 709 |
| 1990s | 324 |
| Other decades | 149 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 5,444 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, śuka, p. 1079,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.